Robert Woodward Barnwell

Robert Woodward Barnwell (10 August 1801-5 November 1882) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-SC 2) from 4 March 1829 to 3 March 1833 (succeeding James Hamilton Jr. and preceding William J. Grayson), a US Senator from 4 June to 18 December 1850 (succeeding Franklin H. Elmore and preceding Robert Rhett), and a Confederate Senator from 18 February 1862 to 10 May 1865.

Biography
Robert Woodward Barnwell was born in Beaufort, South Carolina in 1801, and he was elected to the State House in 1826. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1829 to 1833 and as head of the University of South Carolina in Columbia from 1833 to 1841, and, in 1850, he briefly filled Franklin H. Elmore's vacant seat in the US Senate before Robert Rhett was elected in a special election. In 1861, as a member of the Confederate Congress, he cast the deciding vote in the election of Jefferson Davis as president, and Barnwell went on to serve as a Confederate Senator from 1862 to 1865. After the war, he returned to being a university instructor, and he died in 1882.